Stand for sad-irons.



l. M. KARL.

STAND FOR SAD IRONS.'

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 7. I9I5. IaENEwED FEB. 10.1917.

- Lm 9,400, Patented Mar. 13, 1917.

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JOSEPH lVI. KARL, OF ROSLYN HEIGHTS,NEVJ YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, T0 ROSLYN SPECIALTY COMPANY, INC., OF ROSLYN, NEW YORK, A

CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

STAND FOR SAD-IRON S.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 13, 191'?.

Application filed December 7, 1915, Serial No. 65,574. i Renewed February 10, 1917. Serial No. 147,880.

T 0 all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, Josnrn M. KARL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Roslyn Heights, in the county of Nassau and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Stands for Sad-Irons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates more particularly to aA class of devices for domestic utility, and has for its object primarily to provide a stand of simple, ellicient and durable form designed to be employed for supporting an iron especially when heated for pressing clothes, or other articles whereby the iron will be prevented from accidental displacement from the stand when positioned thereon, thus overcoming the objections to the forms of utensils of this class ordinarily in use. The invention consists essentially of a. base-plate with two stationary flanges projecting upwardly from one part thereof, and these flanges converge in substantially a V- shape to receive one of the ends of the iron therebetween. On an opposite part of the base-plate is a yielding retainer preferably composed of two spring strips movably arranged to clamp the other end of the iron for coacting with the flanges to releasably hold the iron against accidental movement on the base-plate.

A further object of the invention is to provide forms of feet for elevating the baseplate adistance above an ironing board as well as permitting the stand to be secured to the board.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, the said invention being more fully described hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claims at the end of the description.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a top plan of one form of a stand for sad irons embodying my invention. l

Fig. 2 is a side view thereof, and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line III- III of Fig. 1, and which shows the manner of holding an iron on the stand.

The device, or stand has a base-plate 10 which is preferably substantially elliptic in shape, though the base-plate may be of any desired form and size to freely accommodate a sad iron, as 11, and the base-plate may be perforated at intervals, as at 12, to prevent it from becoming too hot when a heated iron is placed thereon. Projecting downwardly from the underside of the perforated baseplate 10 may be a number of feet 13, 14, 15, 16, the feet 13 and 14 being provided respectively at the forward and rear ends of the base-plate, and disposed right angularly from the lower ends of these feet are extensions 17 and 18 having apertures 19 and 20 therethrough for admission of screws or the like to permit the stand to be secured to au ironing board, or other support.

`ends of the sad iron therebetween.

Also projecting above the base-plate 10 on a part thereof opposite to the stationary flanges 21 and 22 isa retainer 23 serving to coact with the flanges for releasably holding an iron against accidental movement on the base-plate. The retainer 23 is preferably composed of two spaced strips 24 and 25 made of metal or other yielding material. One end of the spring strip 24 is connected, at 26, to the rear end of the flange 21 of the base-plate, while one end of the spring strip 25 is secured, at 27 to the rear end of the flange 22 of the base-plate. The other portions of the spring strips 24 and 25 are correspondingly curved inwardly of the central part of the base-plate as well as being disposed rearwardly of the plate. The parts of the'spring strips 24 and 25 which are free of the stationary flanges 21 and 22 are movable on the base-plate, while the free ends of the strips may be curved, at 28 and 29, reversely to the curvature of the other parts thereof, and these springs are tensioned so that their movable parts will be yieldingly forced toward each other to serve as clamping members.

`When the stand is in use the extensions 17 and 18 of the feet 13 and 14 may be secured to an ironing board, or other support, and

Ywhen the iron is heated for pressing an article it is positioned at intervals on the stand by being' disposed on the base-plate 10 so that its rear end will be between the spring strips 241: and 25 and so that the forward end of the iron will be between the stationary flanges 21 and 22, the springstrips being spaced apart suflicient distance so that the iron when placed therebetween will force the springs in lateral directions a gainst the tension thereof.v In this manner the iron l'will be releasably clamped on the stand against accidental displacement,thus overcoming the objections to the ordinary forms of utensils of this class wherein the iron frequently slides therefrom with the consequent danger of injuring` the person using` the iron.

ln the foregoing description, l have embodiedV the preferred form of my invention, but I do not wish to be understood `as limiting myself thereto, as I am aware that modi iications may be made therein without departing' from the principle, or ,sacrificing any -of the advantages of this invention, therefore I reserve toY myself the right to make such changes as fairly fall within the scope thereof.

`Having` thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent l. In a stand for sad irons, a base-plate, two spaced stationary flanges projecting' upwardly from the top of one part of the base-plate to receive one 'end of the iron therebetween, anda yielding retainer on an` opposite part of the base-plate for engaging Vthe other end of the iron to releasably Vhold the iron against accidental movement on the base-plate. Y Y Q 2. In a stand for sad irons, a base-plate, two spaced stationary flanges projecting upwardly from the top of one part of the basel'plate to receive one end of the iron there-r between, land two spring,` actuated clamping'V members on an oppositepart of the baseplate for engagingV the other end of thel iron to releasably hold the iron against accidental movement on the base-plate.

3. A stand for sad irons, comprising aV substantially elliptic perforated base-plate, two approximately semi-elliptic stationary lianges projecting upwardly from the top of one end of the base-plate to receive one end of an iron therebetween, and two spaced spring' strips each having one of its ends fastened to each of the flanges, and the other parts of the strips being movablv disposed on the top of the base-plate toward the second end of the plate in substantially the form of a semi-ellipsis, the strips being);

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Washington, D. C. 

